Lysimachia nummularia/ Creeping Jenny

Lysimachia nummularia

'Aurea'
'Goldilocks'


I planted this groundcover to fill the bare spaces in the back garden where the weeds creep in all summer.  According to all accounts, Creeping Jenny should spread and spread.

'Aurea' is the bright gold variety that shines from afar. 

'Goldilocks' I got at Missouri Botanical Garden when we were there, and it is greener.  They had a wonderful spread of it below shrubs.

6/16/12  spreading under the River birch

It gets buried by the leaves from the maple and the river birch in fall.

But when the leaf litter is off it, the color is bright and it is making a great groundcover. It is, of course, spreading out into the lawn rather than into the empty areas of the garden where there is deeper shade.

5/31/14

I don't mind it spreading in this direction -- the meadow is right there and this is the back of the garden. It gets mowed regularly, but Creeping Jenny will still snake its way through the grass and on into the meadow behind.

6/18/14

In 2015 it continued to wander out into the grass behind the garden, rather than spread into the blank parts of the garden under the birch and maple trees.